I'm not a fan this type of solar development. I live in Arizona and we've bulldozed plenty of the desert. There's lots of life and beauty worth preserving. Instead let's put solar panels on the huge, hot, mostly empty parking lots we're forced to have in the city. It is more expensive, but it can reuse some underutilized space and add some shade within the city. Or put it over agriculture on more rooftops or other similar spaces.
My playdate arrived a few weeks ago. Lots of good fun little games. A lot of the catalog games look nice, but most are just outside of the impulse purchase to me.
I feel that teachers learning about how their interactions contribute to how young students think and feel about themselves and the subject is important. The teachers directly talking about 'growth mindset' to students seems to work against it. It makes me think of corporate speak. For example 'synergy' is worth thinking about (make sure we're working together effectively and similar), but the when we start talking about finding synergies or improving our synergy, eyes start rolling.
> A big goal of the city’s heat mitigation plan is to more than double the city’s tree cover from roughly 10% to 25% by 2030 by planting drought-resistant trees like elms, ashes, and Chinese pistaches, prioritizing historic neighborhoods in the urban core.
That's nice, but just on my street I've seen neighbors take down 3 trees over the past couple years without replacing them. Trees are expensive to trim and care for properly. I haven't heard of anything addressing that. The poorest neighborhoods have almost zero tree cover. The heat + water are and will become larger issues in Phoenix in the next few years and it feels like leadership isn't doing much. On the water front I've heard really interesting things that Las Vegas is doing that should be replicated here (reducing lawns and water waste - example article: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/las-vegas-decla...).
I have a child starting college next year. One thing that surprised me is the number of extra fees. It very much reminded me of ticketmaster, comcast, or airbnb hidden fees. Adding them all up for starting next semester the fees are over $1000. This article does say 'tuition and fees' so it's probably taking this into account. Still it surprised me and feels like a pretty scummy practice.
I definitely agree that the advice is regional. I live in Arizona and I've been working to transform my backyard though some managed neglect with some success. The big thing for me was knowing what plants live in my yard: what to keep and what to remove. After killing the bermuda grass, I did get some nice volunteer sunflowers that I've encouraged to the point that we yearly get a good amount of them on our back porch (water settles in the area when it rains). I've added some globe mallow and other natives over time. I've also learned about all the different invasive weeds in my neighborhood (globe chamomile a.k.a stinknet is a plague). This past winter/spring I added more wildflower seeds which turned out pretty nice. I'm hoping over time I can get more native plants or at least more desirable plants to out-compete the less desirables so it gets easier to manage. In the end I think it's more work than a lawn and takes some education, but to me it's infinitely more interesting and enjoyable to work on.
This is very neat. I've heard of similar benefits to combining solar panels and agriculture.
I'm glad this is getting some attention. I live in the desert and often I hear from people who don't live here the sentiment that it's useless, dead land, but the opposite is true. The deserts in the southwest US are alive with all sorts of interesting and beautiful plants and animals.
I'd like to see something like this used to generate an instrument from text. I don't think the 30 second clips are passable quite yet (I do like the simlish-esque vocals though). But I could see this being able to generate wavetables (or other synthesis methods). Generating an instrument from a text description would be very neat. "scratchy violin", "distorted kazoo", "combo violin and slide whistle", etc. It could be an interesting starting point to play with.
When I was young taking horn lessons my teacher told me that being too close to the timpani can increase your chance to miss notes. This paper is useful in showing some evidence for that. This problem is more unique to the horn as its bell points backwards (and to the horn player's right side). From the audience and conductor's perspective (the house) the horns are usually center or on the left side (stage right) of the stage and the timpani are on the right (stage left) so it isn't an issue. However sometimes you show up and you're pointing right at the timpani or bass drum. I played in one group for a while that did that and it was very frustrating working with them to change it (it never happened). They squeezed us in so tight that it just didn't work well for the horns. To be effective the horn really needs some space and good surfaces behind to reflect the sound into the hall.
Looking at past years it seems to usually go up a bit this time of year. It's going to take much more to get back up to levels of past years. 2019-2022 this time of year had a sharper increase than it has now.
Pretty cool. There's a lot of vim nuances to implement. Everyone is going to have their subset that doesn't work quite right. In my short experimenting with it <shift> in command mode moves the caret up a line which is incorrect.
I like it overall. That said there are some frustrating aspects of it. The green world is a warp maze with small entry points. That's where I quit. If I could slow it down I'd have a better time. I've never been good at quick reaction time games and this requires accuracy in getting into the warp doors and quickly re-orienting to the exit point. I'm sure others will enjoy this challenge.
We have bots scraping some of our pages at work. We've attempted to reach out but haven't received a response. We don't mind the bots so much themselves, but we want them to be well behaved. Currently they are making calls over and over again that return a 4xx response and are a significant portion of our traffic. We want to request that they stop making bad requests and slow down (we do have throttling in place, but this just gave them more errors to ignore and retry.).
I'd love for an open third-party like this one. It'd even help with prioritizing features that we're missing in our first-party products.
Definitely. Pieces end up being listed something like "Symphony No.3, Mvt. II", but they only show the performer which is the orchestra playing rather than the composer so I have no idea which symphony it is. I haven't seen any service get classical music right.
I think your list is pretty good (composer/piece/orchestra/conductor/performers). It'd be nice to also have a field for the movement. Also I totally agree with custom sort order being a must. E.g. for choir pieces swap out 'orchestra' for 'choir', for piano pieces only include 'performer' field, concertos should have the 'soloist' before the orchestra, etc.
I've sung or hummed along to canyon.mid a time or two. We're good. The meaning of the word 'song' has expanded in popular usage. I play the horn (french horn) and I smile an nod when someone calls a clarinet a horn.